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 | Born on 2 October 1934 in Boujad, Morocco, Ahmed Cherkaoui was one of the leading Modernist painters of Moroccan Art in the post-independence period of 1956. Cherkaoui's large-scale abstract and symbolic canvases negotiated an amalgam of references, including Amazighi art, calligraphy and talismanic symbols. Cherkaoui painted his complex symbols on canvases covered with burlap. He used a system of geometric signs and ciphers, including triangles, circles, lozenges, dots and broken and curved lines. He was generally associated with a small group of painters in Casablanca including Houssein Tallal and Andre Elbaz although he was never part of the Casablanca School. Cherkaoui died on 17 August 1967 in Casablanca, Morocco.
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 | Daoud Corm was born on 26 June 1852 in Ghosta, Lebanon. Recognized as the father of modern art in Lebanon, Corm was a pioneer in establishing a market for oil painting in the country's private sector. Although Corm experimented with a number of genres including still lifes, landscapes, genres scenes, and a substantial number of Biblical scenes and portraits of religious figures, he was the first artist in Beirut to earn a living by portraying public figures and members of the city's emerging mercantile class on paper and canvas. In addition to his portraits, Corm created a substantial body of religious works, the majority of which were commissioned by the Maronite Church and many of which remain in churches throughout Mount Lebanon. Corm died on 6 June 1930 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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 | Georges Daoud Corm, born in 1896 in Beirut, Lebanon, was a distinguished Lebanese painter and francophone poet. In both his visual and written work, Corm expressed a dedication to the classical tradition of European Humanism and Christian ethics. This commitment is evident in a series of paintings, which critics have classified as, "paysages d'âme," or spiritual landscapes. His body of work also includes a number of commissioned and anonymous portraits. In 1966, he published his most well-known written work, Essai sur l'art et la civilization de ce temps, in which Corm articulates an aesthetic position in the midst of a radically divided cold war culture. Corm died on 13 December 1971 in Beirut, Lebanon.
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 | Saloua Raouda Choucair was born on 24 June 1916 in Beirut, Lebanon. Inspired by a range of diverse influences, including quantum physics, molecular biology, Arabic poetry, and Islamic theology, she used art to explore the deep essentials structuring human life and universal processes. Her oeuvre integrates practical utility and aesthetic self-awareness in a corpus spanning sculpture, painting, architectural plans, outdoor installations, domestic items, and personal adornment. Her art is influenced by concurrent trends in Abstract, International Modern, Geometricist, and Neo-plastic art in France, America, and the Arab world, all places where she lived and worked between 1948 and the 1980s. She wrote and lectured extensively and taught at the Lebanese University and the American University of Beirut in the 1970s and 1980s. Choucair died in Beirut, in 2017.
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